Definitions
Etymologies
- From hyper- and the root mnesia relating to memory. (Wiktionary)
- hyper- + (a)mnesia. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Another distortion of memory is called hypermnesia.”
“Some of the processes that have taken hypnoanalysis charactristics for solo runs include The Journey Process by Brandon Bays (a snarfing of core transformation, partial imagined hypermnesia, and time line) and Core Transformation by Connirae Andreas (a very nice take on parts therapy that goes to the heart of the matter).”
“Or, run yourself through a full-on revivification of a past event, not hypermnesia but an actual re-experience.”
Is all hypnosis self-hypnosis? Is all self-hypnosis hypnosis?
“Not the same as deliberate fraud, hypermnesia can play havoc with our ability to give accurate testimony.”
““This hypermnesia—is that the function of a particular alter, do you know?””
“Many hypnotherapeutic techniques such as amnesia, hypermnesia, progression, paramnesia, automatic writing, dream induction, regression, production of experimental conflicts and crystal or mirror gazing require a somnambulistic state.”
“The hypermnesia of the dream and the resort to infantile material have become main supports in our theory.”
“But hypermnesia, pure and simple, consists of an extraordinary flood of memories totally lacking that essential mark of creation -- new combinations.”
“-- Resemblances to hypermnesia, the initial state of alcoholic intoxication and somnambulism on waking.”
“The term I've heard mentioned before is he has 'hypermnesia,'" Caldwell said.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hypermnesia’.
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
Words to quiz the intermediate and advanced speller alike
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-mnem-, -mnesia, -mnesis
memory
mnemonics, amnesia, anamnesis, hypermnesia, cryptomnesia, mnemonic, antimnemonic, anamnestic, mnestic, mneme, automnesia, pseudamnesia and 3 more...
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
Many of these terms are archaic, or obsolete.
More medical terms can be found on...enterectomy, ethmoid, parhidrosis, parelectronomy, parectasis, dermatoxerasia, parazygosis, parepididymis, paraspasm, lymphadenopathy, necrosemiosis, necromimesis and 770 more...
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Logodaedalus' Lexical Locutionary
Discombobulating the illiterate since the middle of the last century.
adiaphora, agitprop, alliteration, apophthegm, autarky, bête noire, bezoar, biorhythm, braggadocio, canaille, confabulate, confrère and 332 more...
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Mnemosyne
Elicityscapes. Re-re-running; get, put.
"'Member dat?"
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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Ultrapow
A mighty myriad of Mister Mxyzptlk manifestation. This list leans towards one-word superpowers and occasionally the ridiculous.
Spin-off lists: Ultrafrow - absurd powers, Flossational...telepathy, psychometry, retrocognition, precognition, clairvoyance, mediumship, illusions, mind-control, mindblast, telekinesis, thermokinesis, quantokinesis and 142 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Words featured in Mrs. Byrne's Dictio...
Selections from Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne (University Books, 1974). Definitions in the comments when not available elsewhere.
apanthropy, anoetic, aristology, ayne, bibliopole, bibliotaph, calecannon, caoine, catlap, chirospasm, clamjamfry, coadunate and 174 more...
Tweets
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bilby I remember when whichbe made that comment. He was wearing a blue suit and typing with one hand while holding a cup of echinacea herbal tea in the other. One ant, who gave the alias of 'Joe' but refused to reveal his fixed abode, was crawling up his left leg. Nov 30, 2008
whichbe The condition of having an unusually vivid or precise memory. Aug 29, 2008